This season the Fisher Center’s orchestra-in-residence performs major orchestral works by Béla Bartók and Igor ...

This season the Fisher Center’s orchestra-in-residence performs major orchestral works by Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky (whose life and musical legacy will be the subject of the 2013 Bard Music Festival). Other composers to be featured include Maurice Ravel, Sergey Prokofiev, Witold Lutosławski, and two contemporaries—Howard Shore, whose Mythic Gardens, a concerto for cello and orchestra, will receive its world premiere, and Christopher Brubeck. Featured soloists include Sophie Shao, cello; Jiazhi Wang, violin; and Tamas Markovics, trombone.

For more info and tickets, visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/aso/

Friday, February 24, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Concert II
Maurice Ravel
La valse, poème chorégraphique
Sergey Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Jiazhi Wang, violin
Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring

Friday, April 27, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Concert III
Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra
Christopher Brubeck
Prague Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra
Tamas Markovics, bass trombone
Howard Shore
Mythic Gardens, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Sophie Shao, cello
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra

Performance of Beloved Sacred Oratorio with Full Orchestra and Chorus of More Than 100 Singers on the Stage of the Acoustically ...

Performance of Beloved Sacred Oratorio with Full Orchestra and Chorus of More Than 100 Singers on the Stage of the Acoustically Superb Sosnoff Theater. Featuring members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra and members of the American Symphony Orchestra. Click here to read the full press release. For tickets, click here.

The Orchestra will give a concert on Sunday, December 4, at 3pm with music director, Leon Botstein, and Jeremy Denk, piano, at Bard ...

The Orchestra will give a concert on Sunday, December 4, at 3pm with music director, Leon Botstein, and Jeremy Denk, piano, at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center. 
The Orchestra will perform with Conservatory student Frances Lee, piano, at Bard College at Simon's Rock (in Great Barrington, MA) on Saturday, December 3.
Works to be performed include Beethoven Piano Concert No. 3 and Mahler Symphony No. 5.

This state-of-the-art teaching and performance facility addresses the growing needs of the Conservatory, brought on by its fivefold ...

This state-of-the-art teaching and performance facility addresses the growing needs of the Conservatory, brought on by its fivefold growth since its founding in 2005. With an anticipated completion date of January 2013, the building is scheduled to begin construction in October. The design of the building, by Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York City, supports the Conservatory’s dedication to providing top-level musical training in the context of a liberal arts education. A groundbreaking ceremony for The László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building will take place on Saturday, October 29 at 11:30 a.m., adjacent to the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center at Bard College. Click here for press release.

As part of the Bard Prison Initiative the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, with music director Leon Botstein, will peform a concert at the ...

As part of the Bard Prison Initiative the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, with music director Leon Botstein, will peform a concert at the New York State Eastern Correctional Facility on September 27. The concert will include Copland's Fanfare for a Common Man, Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Haydn Symphony No. 100 ("Military") and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.

Singers from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program with pianists Kayo Iwama , head of the VAP, and Bard Collaborative Piano Fellow Michael ...

Singers from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program with pianists Kayo Iwama , head of the VAP, and Bard Collaborative Piano Fellow Michael Bukhman performed a concert at the prestigious Ojai Music Festival in California on June 9, 2011. The concert, entitled "Voices: The Next Generation" was hosted by Dawn Upshaw, artistic director of the Bard VAP, and included solos, duets, and vocal ensembles, featuring classical works and folk song arrangements. For a review of the concert please click here. And for more about the Ojai Festival please click here.

We are proud to announce that the graduating class of 2011 has achieved an extraordinary level of success in graduate school ...

We are proud to announce that the graduating class of 2011 has achieved an extraordinary level of success in graduate school acceptances.

Out of a graduating class of 19 students, 3 will be continuing their studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, 4 will be attending the Yale School of Music, 1 will be attending The Juilliard School, and 1 will attend SUNY Stony Brook. Other students are in the process of making their decisions, and will be choosing from among Juilliard, New England Conservatory, Rice, and other schools. One of our Conservatory students will be attending a Ph.D. program in Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin.

In partnership with the Bard College Conservatory of Music, Carnegie Hall commissioned four young composers to write new vocal works ...

In partnership with the Bard College Conservatory of Music, Carnegie Hall commissioned four young composers to write new vocal works for 10 selected singers. Composer Donnacha Dennehy and soprano Dawn Upshaw have mentored these musicians through the collaborative compositional process, leading up to this premiere performance. Tickets from $15. For more information, visit: http://www.carnegiehall.org/Event.aspx?id=2400

Singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant performed on March 5, 2011, with the  Bard Conservatory Orchestra with James Bagwell, ...

Singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant performed on March 5, 2011, with the  Bard Conservatory Orchestra with James Bagwell, conductor, in a sold-out concert at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts as a benefit for the Scholarship Fund.  Songs from her most recent recording project, Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch Records 2010) and works from her
extensive catalogue were featured. Click here for video of the dress rehearsal.